Physicians' satisfaction with their 2011 compensation varied greatly, and roughly one-third of physicians through their income should have been higher, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.
Compensation Issues
Last month, Physicians Practice released its 2012 Staff Salary Survey, and nurses and nurse managers saw average annual salary increases of 4 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
Physician salaries remained relatively flat — and in many cases negative — in 2011, as the average net compensation change across 20 different specialties was -1.7 percent, according to the latest physician compensation survey from The Medicus Firm.
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that gender income inequality exists between women and men academic physician researchers even after adjusting for differences in specialty, work hours, academic rank and other factors.
Physician compensation survey data is normally distributed to eager eyes waiting to see the current benchmarks, but a comprehensive look of the actual underlying content in those surveys could prove to be valuable, according to an article from VMG Health…
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Civilian workers — such as nurses, management and other general workers — employed at hospitals earned $38.81 per hour in total compensation this past March, and wages and salaries represented two-thirds of that total, according to a news release from…
From 2010 to 2011, general surgeons witnessed the largest declines, on average, in income and compensation, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis is expected to receive a 10 percent salary raise to $176,000 pending board approval, but that would still put him below the average for the area, according to a Peninsula Daily…
Roughly 82 percent of physicians do not receive compensation from prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions and facility/surgery fees they order, and the largest portion of physician compensation comes from fixed sources, according to a survey from healthcare staffing…
Almost two years ago in July 2010, President Barack Obama signed a 1,408-page bill into law that aimed to reign in the dominating presence of the U.S. financial services sector — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act…